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Thursday, August 7, 2014

Saturday, 6
September, Montichiari (BS) at the Garda Exhibition Centre, there will
be a special edition of the Contest University Italy !!! one of the
most important event in the ham radio contest in Italy-

Mark it in your agenda!

The special edition will be dedicated to the CQWW Contest and the ICC
Italian Contest Club, we will have Randy K5ZD CQWW Contest Director.

Thanks to the presence of Randy we will have an interaction with who
organizes and directs CQWW the most important contest of the year.

Also after the success of our Team Italian II0HQ representative Ari in
the IARU of July, we invited Giuseppe IT9BLB he will report the
difficulties of management and operational strategies of a Multi Multi
all over the Italian territory.

For the grand finale due to the
presence of IK1HJS and promoters of the ICC we will have the
presentation of the 'Italian Club Contest !!! which will be present an
interesting opportunities to join this club and start to promote the
Contest in Italy.

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

A group of 4 hams (SV5AZP, SV5DDT, SV5DKL & SV5KKA) all members of the Radio Amateur Association of Dodecanese (http://www.sz5rds.gr), will
perform a mini DXpedition to Stroggili islet (IOTA EU-001), 5nm
southeast of Kastellorizo (Megisti) island, during this year's ILLW
(International Lighthouse & Lightship Weekend) on 16-17/08/2014.

Callsign to be used is

SZ5RDS/p

Despite only military personnel is
allowed on the islet, not only we managed to obtain all required permits
for this operation, but we will be transferred to/from the islet by
army's means.Stroggili is a small rocky islet
administrated by Megisti Municipality and its area is approximately 1
sq.km (1,5km long by up to 700m).

A beautiful Lighthouse
(named Ipsili) exists at the Southern part of Stroggili. It was
originally put in service back in 1910, using oil lamp, which produced a
luminosity of 20 nautical miles. It has a focal plane of 85 meters and
it consists of a 6,6m high round tower. Since 1987, the Lighthouse﻿ operates
automatically, solely with solar power and its current luminosity is 17
nautical miles. It is worth mentioning that before Cyprus enrolled the
E.U., Stroggili islet used to be the southeasternmost part of European
Union.

Our DXpedition will activate, in summary, the following:

DXCC: SV5 (Dodecanese)

IOTA: EU-001 (Dodecanese)

GIOTA: DKS-001

MIA: MGD-022

WLOTA: L-1653

ARLHS: GRE-123

ILLW: TBD

Plus, we will take part in the International Lighthouse & Lightship Weekend.

Our equipment will
comprise of 2 fully equipped stations running 100w, modes to be used are
SSB/CW/RTTY and we will use a 3el. mini beam for 10/15/20m, a λ/4
vertical for 40m, a Fritzel FD-4 Windom for 80-10m, a 5 el. 6m yagi and a
9 el. 2m yagi.

QSL will be via SV5AZP. Our logs will be uploaded to eQSL.cc and Clublog, right after the end of the DXpedition.